Balanophoraceae
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·Subtropical to tropical family of unusual parasitic flowering plants. They have
an above ground inflorescence with the overall appearance of a fungus, composed
of numerous minute flowers.

Auguste Faguet produced delicate botanical wood-engravings of great accuracy for the works of
Henri Ernest Baillon. For the Dictionnaire de botanique, published from
1876-1892 in 34 fascicles, he also made 32 fine chromolithographed plates, which
came out with each fascicle without additional text (2 contained no plate).
* Nissen BBI 61 + p. 150; Stafleu & Cowan 253.